The Director’s Seminar Series, which features panels of Princeton University faculty who deliberate core questions from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective, was launched at the start of the 2022-2023 academic year by Deborah Yashar, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
This year’s unifying theme is Global Existential Challenges.
Fall Series
Rebecca Bill Chavez, President & CEO, Inter-American Dialogue
Evan Lieberman, Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa…
Samuel S. Wang, Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University
Discussant:
Keena Lipsitz, Associate Professor of Political Science…
Speaker:
Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Discussant:
Nancy Bermeo, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University
Spring Series
Laurence Ralph, professor, anthropology
Patrick Sharkey, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, assistant professor, economics and public affairs
Allison Carruth, professor, American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Wei Peng, assistant professor, public and international affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Gabriel Vecchi, professor, geosciences and director, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Pascaline Dupas, professor, economics and public affairs
Seema Jayachandran, professor, economics and public affairs
Anuj Ahah, associate professor, psychology
2023-2024 Series
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, professor, Near Eastern Studies; director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
Elizabeth Nugent, assistant professor, politics
Grigore Pop-Eleches, professor, politics and international affairs
Yu Xie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology
Stephen Macedo, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
Arvind Narayanan, professor, Computer Science
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching
Angela Creager, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science
Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs
C. Jessica Metcalf, associate professor, ecology, evolutionary biology and public affairs
Sanyu A. Mojolo, professor, sociology and public affairs; Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies; director, Office of Population Research
Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor African American Studies
Beth Semel, assistant professor, anthropology
Jacob Shapiro, professor, politics and international affairs; director, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project
Xu Xu, assistant professor, politics and international affairs
Laurence Ralph, professor, anthropology
Patrick Sharkey, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, assistant professor, economics and public affairs
Allison Carruth, professor, American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Wei Peng, assistant professor, public and international affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Gabriel Vecchi, professor, geosciences and director, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Pascaline Dupas, professor, economics and public affairs
Seema Jayachandran, professor, economics and public affairs
Anuj Ahah, associate professor, psychology
Carlos Fausto, PIIRS Global Fellow; professor, anthropology, Museu Nacional, UFRJ
Paul Frymer, professor, politics
Ikaika Ramones, assistant professor, anthropology
2022-2023 Series
Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs
Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History; Cotsen Faculty Fellow; director, Global History Lab
Jennifer Widner, professor of politics and international affairs; director, Innovations for Successful Societies
Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences; director, Program in Political Philosophy
Kim L. Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values
Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology; professor, sociology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; vice dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Thomas Fujiwara, associate professor, economics and public affairs; co-director, Brazil LAB
Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy; professor, politics and international affairs
Elizabeth M. Armstrong, associate professor, sociology and public affairs; head, Butler College
Tanushree Goyal, assistant professor, politics and international affairs
Kristopher Velasco, assistant professor, sociology
Gary Bass, professor, politics and international affairs
Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Zia Mian, research scientist; co-director, Program in Science and Global Security
Rafaela Dancygier, professor, politics and international affairs; director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Filiz Garip, professor, sociology and public affairs
Anna Stilz, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology; chair, Department of Anthropology
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; director, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies; professor, civil and environmental engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; director, Chadha Center for Global India
Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment; professor, psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs; associate director for education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; director, Fung Global Fellows Program
Karen Emmerich, associate professor, comparative literature; director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies; director, Program in African Studies; director, Africa World Initiative
Laurence Ralph, professor, anthropology
Max Weiss, associate professor, history